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Hungry Haitians riot over food prices Open this result in new window
The Kansas City Star - Apr 07 8:30 PM
Hungry Haitians stormed the presidential palace Tuesday, throwing rocks and demanding the resignation of President Rene Preval over soaring food prices. Overwhelmed guards struggled to hold back the crowd until U.N. peacekeepers came to their rescue, firing rubber bullets and tear gas.
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Starving Haitians riot as food prices soar Open this result in new window
Independent - 1 hour, 37 minutes ago
Demonstrators have tried to storm the presidential palace in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, as protests over hunger and rising food prices spread across the developing world.
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13 WMAZ Macon - Apr 09 3:51 AM
Egypt is moving to calm a northern industrial city after two days of deadly riots over high food prices and low wages.
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UN Wants Urgent Action On Spiralling Food Prices Open this result in new window
Scoop.co.nz - 2 hours, 50 minutes ago
9 April 2008 - Warning that soaring food prices could lead to increased poverty and unrest, several senior United Nations officials have called for urgent measures to tackle the global crisis, which threatens to hit the world’s poor the hardest.
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Britain wants G8 to discuss biofuel link to food prices: report
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AFP via Yahoo! News - 8 minutes ago
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has written to his Japanese counterpart asking for the impact of biofuel-production on food prices to be discussed at the Group of Eight rich nations summit in July, The Guardian reported Thursday.
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From rice in Peru to miso in Japan, food prices are rising Open this result in new window
AG Weekly - Apr 09 10:24 AM
MEXICO CITY — If you’re seeing your grocery bill go up, you’re not alone. From subsistence farmers eating rice in Ecuador to gourmets feasting on escargot in France, consumers worldwide face rising food prices in what analysts call a perfect storm of conditions. Freak weather is a factor.
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Kikwete, left, said that food security and oil prices were major issues for Africa and India [Reuters] Open this result in new window
Aljazeera - Apr 09 9:59 AM
African leaders have identified high oil prices, food security and climate change as top concerns in a joint declaration at the first-ever Afro-Indo summit on trade and investment.
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Brown calls on G8 leaders, IMF, World Bank to tackle rising food prices Open this result in new window
Sharewatch - 1 hour, 53 minutes ago
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has written to his G8 counterparts, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank calling for a co-ordinated response to the effect rising food prices are having on developing nations.
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Africa: Urgent Measures Required to Reduce Impact of High Food Prices On the Poor Open this result in new window
AllAfrica.com - Apr 09 10:04 AM
Urgent measures are needed to ensure that short-term adverse effects of higher food prices do not impact even more alarmingly on the very poor, FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf said today.
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Angry Food Riots Are the New Face of Hunger Open this result in new window
Environment News Service - 1 hour, 13 minutes ago
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates , April 9, 2008 (ENS) - Warning that spiralling food prices are leading to increased poverty and unrest, several senior United Nations officials are calling for urgent measures to tackle the global crisis, which is causing the most suffering among the world’s poor.
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El Pasoans scrimp as food prices jump Open this result in new window
El Paso Times - Apr 07 11:00 AM
If you’ve bought a dozen eggs or a gallon of milk lately, it will be no surprise that food prices increased last year at the highest rate in 17 years.
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US shoppers scrimp as food prices rise Open this result in new window
Times of Malta - Apr 08 11:55 PM
A mother and her daughter shop at a Wal-Mart store in Santa Clarita, California. Patricia Norris’ family is feeling the one-two punch of higher fuel and food prices.
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Protests over food prices paralyze Haitian capital Open this result in new window
Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News - Apr 08 11:27 AM
Haitians erected flaming barricades and tried to storm the National Palace on Tuesday as protests against rising food prices, which have killed five people, paralyzed the impoverished nation’s capital.
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As prices rise, U.S. farmers abandon conservation Open this result in new window
International Herald Tribune - Apr 09 4:25 AM
Thousands of U.S. farmers are pulling their fields out of the government’s biggest conservation program, spurning guaranteed annual payments for a chance to cash in on the boom in wheat, soybeans, corn and other crops.
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Oil prices near $109 in Asian trade ahead of U.S. stockpiles report Open this result in new window
Sharewatch - Apr 08 8:57 PM
SINGAPORE (Thomson Financial) - Oil prices rose toward $109 in Asian trading on Wednesday ahead of the U.S. government’s weekly energy stockpiles report due later in the day.
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Commodities Rise Most in 2 Weeks; Oil, Fuel, Corn Hit Records Open this result in new window
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April 9 (Bloomberg) — Commodities jumped the most in two weeks as crude oil, gasoline and corn surged to records following U.S. government reports signaling demand for energy and grain is still outpacing supplies.
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U.S. stocks rise as WaMu cash report spurs financials Open this result in new window
MarketWatch via Yahoo! Finance - Apr 07 10:31 AM
U.S. stocks extend early gains, with financial shares leading the way on reports of a $5 billion injection for Washington Mutual, and the energy sector rallying on rising crude-oil prices.
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Cotton prices set to rise: ICAC Open this result in new window
Express India - Apr 08 2:15 PM
The cotton prices in the global market is likely to rise due to the gap between the demand and supply and competing crops like soyabeans, corn, wheat and oilseeds, the U S based International Cotton Advisory Committee said.
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Bloomberg.com - Apr 07 2:28 PM
April 7 (Bloomberg) — Asian stocks advanced in U.S. trading as rising oil and metal prices boosted commodity shares including BHP Billiton. Posco, Asia’s third-biggest steelmaker, fell after agreeing to a tripling in the price it pays for coking coal.
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Wheat Prices Going Up Open this result in new window
KPVI 6 Pocatello - 30 minutes ago
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration - gas prices here in the rocky mountain region climbed six cents since the end of March. Totaling $3 dollars and 57 cents per gallon of self serve
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U.S. gasoline prices could hit $4 a gallon this summer; about $1.05 a litre Open this result in new window
Canadian Business - Apr 08 9:04 AM
John Wilen, The Associated Press April 8, 2008 - 11:59 a.m. NEW YORK - The U.S. Energy Department says the retail price for gasoline could hit $4 for an American gallon this summer.
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U.S. gasoline price slips from record Open this result in new window
Toronto Star - Apr 09 1:47 AM
NEW YORK–Retail gasoline prices in the United States fell slightly from record levels yesterday, but a new government forecast said gas could reach as high as $4 (U.S.) an American gallon during the summer driving season.
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U.S. gas prices could hit $4/gallon this summer Open this result in new window
Autonet.ca - Apr 08 1:18 PM
NEW YORK - The U.S. Energy Department says the retail price for gasoline could hit $4 for an American gallon this summer. But the department says the price, just above the equivalent of $1.05 a litre, will likely be high enough to make many Americans think twice about hitting the road this summer.
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MCOT English News : U.S. to export rice to Philippines Open this result in new window
MCOT - English News By Thai News Agency - Apr 09 7:34 AM
MANILA, April 9 (Xinhua) — The United States will export rice to Manila, U.S. ambassador to the Philippines Kristie Kenney said on Wednesday, amid fears of a looming food crisis in the archipelago.
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U.S. losing bees and beekeepers Open this result in new window
USA Today - Apr 09 8:14 AM
The number of bees is on the decline across the USA, and there’s also a shortage of beekeepers.
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Liberia: GOL, ADA Sign U.S.$30 Million Agreement Open this result in new window
AllAfrica.com - Apr 09 9:34 AM
Weeks following the pronouncement of several western countries that they may not export rice, Liberia’s staple food in to the country, a Liberian company, the Foundation For African Development Aid Commercial (ADA) has signed a US$30 million Concession Agreement for the production of rice.
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Food-crunch ‘fix’ won’t work Open this result in new window
MSN Money Canada - Apr 08 12:36 PM
The answer to the world’s food-supply squeeze isn’t to ban or curtail exports (though that’s being tried). The short-term solution lies in seed and fertilizer. Investors, take note.
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Bakers, millers want government action to help domestic wheat shortage Open this result in new window
The Prairie Star - Apr 09 10:50 AM
THREE FORKS, Mont. - As the majority of the nation’s bakers and millers look for congressional assistance to ensure future domestic wheat supply, those at Wheat Montana look to Mother Nature for a good crop year.
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I don’t know the answer, but I DO KNOW THE QUESTION: Is there a limit to economic growth? Open this result in new window
ZDNet - Apr 08 4:18 PM
It’s considered unfair, racist, unimaginative, luddite or worse to question how many millions of people this planet can support at the average GDP of Europe, or more resource-costly, the U.S. Here’s a column from Australia that delves into this morally frought territory, pointing out the rapid economic rise of...
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Of food and fuel Open this result in new window
York News-Times - Apr 07 5:03 PM
Americans currently face numerous economic challenges. Families across our nation must deal with ever increasing prices on necessities Ð health care, energy, and durable goods. But the rising cost of food is one of the most serious burdens affecting all segments of our population.
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Manufacturers seek McGovern’s aid Open this result in new window
Worcester Telegram & Gazette - Apr 08 1:53 AM
CLINTON - The cost of health insurance and energy, along with a lack of well-trained and qualified technical workers, were key concerns raised by manufacturers yesterday at a roundtable discussion at Nypro Inc. with U.S. Rep. James P. McGovern.
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The Daily Tar Heel - Apr 08 11:24 PM
William Lawson isn’t crazy about ethanol, and neither are we. Lawson, a Republican candidate in our own 4th Congressional District, is blaming America’s ethanol policies for contributing to the rise in food costs, a concern he has made a key part of his campaign.
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Iranian sells kebabs in polar bear country Open this result in new window
Cape Cod Times - Apr 08 11:01 PM
Denied asylum in Norway, Kazem Ariaiwand makes Iranian food in a frozen outpost where neither visa nor citizenship is required.
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The Biggest Green Mistake - Biofuels and the global food crisis
Reason ^ | April 8, 2008 | Ronald Bailey
Posted on Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:40:45 PM by neverdem
In the last year, the price of wheat has tripled, corn doubled, and rice almost doubled. As prices soared, food riots have broken out in about 20 poor countries including Yemen, Haiti, Egypt, Pakistan, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, and Mexico. In response some countries, such as India, Pakistan Egypt and Vietnam, are banning the export of grains and imposing food price controls.
Eyewitness: Haiti food protests
Portuguese telecoms engineer Tarun Pinto was in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, when protests by hungry crowds about rising food prices turned violent.
The protests actually started on Monday.
But Tuesday was when the protests really escalated. I noticed no activity on the streets. There is normally a little market, cars - there was nothing, just the occasional motorcycle. People were protesting about massive hikes in the price of food.
There was a general atmosphere of disorganisation, I saw people running in panic all over the place. They seemed to be running away from the main crowd. We didn’t really know what was going on.
It was only later in the day that we were told by our security people that we had to leave everything because the main protest was going to pass us. They were coming up our street of our office building and might have guns.
‘Set ablaze’
We went to the bottom floor to a windowless room and I realised that the crowd was throwing stones and bottles at our building. They were banging on the gates and I could see that our security guards were running about everywhere.
I managed to sneak out and I saw the protesters straggling at the end of the crowds. They started throwing projectiles at us. I had the feeling they were throwing things at any building that represented commercialisation as opposed to just targeting foreigners.
Our security guys told us that all the cars that were parked on the streets surrounding the building were totally destroyed or set ablaze or both.
They also told us that a couple of guys had been bashed in by rocks. I was not able to verify any of this, except for a couple of wrecked cars that we saw on the way back to the apartment. One does see wrecked cars in Haiti so I couldn’t be sure.
You can see the poverty in Haiti. It’s really obvious. When I first arrived in Haiti during the elections of 2007, I noticed the lack of trees here. Every hill seems to have been stripped bare down to its surface and trees seem to have been replaced by shanty towns.
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Published: 2008/04/09 15:20:54 GMT
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Is India facing a food crisis?
By Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Indian economy analyst
Is India, the world’s second most populous nation, facing a food crisis?
This question is vexing policy makers and analysts alike even as creeping inflation - around 7% now - is sending jitters through the Congress party-led ruling coalition.
To be sure, India has not yet experienced riots over rising food prices that have hit other countries like Zimbabwe or Argentina.
But what is worrying everybody is that the current rise in inflation is driven by high food prices.
In the capital, Delhi, milk costs 11% more than last year. Edible oil prices have climbed by a whopping 40% over the same period.
More crucially, rice prices have risen by 20% and prices of certain lentils by 18%. Rice and lentils comprise the staple diet for many Indians.
Tax on the poor
Inflation, economists say, is akin to a tax on the poor since food accounts for a relatively high proportion of their expenses.
All of which is bad news for ruling politicians because the poor in India vote in much larger numbers than the affluent.
Roughly one out of four Indians lives on less than $1 a day and three out of four earn $2 or less.
The rise in food prices, the government says, is an international phenomenon.
But this argument is unlikely to cut much ice with the people.
At the crux of the crisis is the tardy pace at which farm output has been growing in recent years.
The Indian economy has been growing rapidly at an average of 8.5% over the last five years.
This growth has been mainly confined to manufacturing industry and the burgeoning services sector.
Agriculture, on the other hand, has grown by barely 2.5% over the last five years and the trend rate of growth is even lower if the past decade and a half is considered.
Consequently, per capita output of cereals (wheat and rice) at present is more or less at the level that prevailed in the 1970s.
The problem acquires a serious dimension since farming provides livelihood to around 60% of India’s 1.1 billion people even though farm produce comprises only 18% of the country’s current gross domestic product (GDP).
On the other hand, the services sector - that includes the fast-growing computer software and business process outsourcing industries - constitutes over 55% of GDP with the remainder being taken up by industry.
The crisis in farms is exemplified by the state of the country’s cereal stocks.
Vulnerable farmers
Six years ago, the stocks were at record levels.
Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen had said if all the bags of wheat and rice with the state-owned Food Corporation of India were placed end to end, they would go all the way to the moon and back.
Stocks have come down over the past three years because of low production and exports.
The problem has been compounded by the fact that whenever India has imported wheat in recent months, world prices of wheat have shot up.
There is also considerable resentment over the fact that the price of wheat that the government imports is often twice as high as the minimum price the government pay its own farmers for domestically grown wheat.
Indian farmers are particularly vulnerable since 60% per cent of the country’s total cropped area is not irrigated.
They are also dependent on the four-month-long monsoon during which period 80% of the year’s total rainfall takes place.
The crisis in agriculture has been manifest in the growing incidence of farmers taking their own lives.
At least 10,000 farmers have committed suicide each year over the last decade because of their inability of repay loans taken at usurious rates of interest from local moneylenders.
Populist moves
There has never been an acute shortage of food in India, not even during the infamous famine in Bengal in 1943 in which more than 1.5 million people are estimated to have died of starvation.
The problem then - and now - is entitlement or access to food at affordable prices.
Given the low purchasing power of India’s poor, even a small increase in food prices contributes to a sharp fall in real incomes.
The current crisis in Indian agriculture is a consequence of many factors - low rise in farm productivity, unremunerative prices for cultivators, poor food storage facilities resulting in high levels of wastage.
Fragmentation of land holdings and a fall in public investments in rural areas, especially in irrigation facilities, are also to blame.
The government has announced a $15bn waiver of farmer loans and extended a jobs scheme - ensuring 100 days of work in a year entailing manual labour to every family demanding such work at the official minimum wage - to all over the country.
None of these populist initiatives will really work until India’s rulers begin giving its ignored farms the importance they deserve.
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Published: 2008/04/07 06:53:40 GMT
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Assam probe into mushroom deaths
By Subir Bhaumik
BBC News, Calcutta
An enquiry has been set up into the deaths of more than 20 people who ate mushrooms in India’s north-eastern state of Assam, officials say.
The state government has asked scientists to look into the deaths, which have triggered panic and confusion in parts of Assam.
Assam Agriculture Minister Pramilla Rani Brahma has set up an investigative panel into the deaths.
It will be led by Assam Agriculture University Vice Chancellor SS Baghel.
Scientists at the university say that the mushrooms consumed by affected people in the eastern Golaghat district were of a highly poisonous variety called Amanita Phalloides Vaill.
“AAU scientists have said that this particular mushroom variety that is very poisonous grows and flourishes under the season’s first showers,” said Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
Admitted to hospitals
On Monday, a three-year-old girl died after eating mushrooms in eastern Tinsukia district.
Five other members of the family have been admitted to a specialist hospital in the area.
So far, around 50 people are being treated at various hospitals in the state.
Local media reports said those affected had eaten mushrooms grown in the wild and were extremely poor people who lack other food.
The state government, however, has denied such reports.
“We are sure poverty is not the reason for those people to consume mushrooms, because the areas from where such cases are reported grow vegetables in abundance,” Mr Biswa Sarma said.
“But we have called for a socio-economic survey of the affected people.”
The mushroom deaths have been mostly reported from Sibsagar, Golaghat and Jorhat districts in eastern Assam.
More than 25 people fell ill after consuming mushrooms in Golaghat and neighbouring Jorhat districts early last week.
Sixteen were admitted to different hospitals, and 12 of them died by late on Friday evening. “We have asked the officials in the respective districts to collect samples of mushroom in and around the villages, where deaths have so far been reported from,” said Mr Biswa Sarma.
“The samples will be sent to labs for tests.”
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Bean Rissoles
From Australia
Ingredients
1 cup cold cooked brown beans
Herbs
1 cup mashed potato
Flour for shaping
Heaped tablespoon of Grated cheese
Egg and breadcrumbs
Chopped parsley
Frying fat (copha if available)
Salt and pepper
Apples
Tomatoes.
Method
Mix beans, potato, cheese, and parsley. Flavour with salt and pepper, and herbs if liked. Turn on to a floured board and form cakes or rissoles. Dip rissoles into egg and breadcrumbs and deep-fry to a golden brown. Serve with thick slices of grilled apple and tomato and garnish with parsley.
Blueberry Dessert Pizza
1 pk White Cake Mix
1 1/4 c Quick cooking rolled oats
1/2 c Margarine or butter softened
1 Egg
1/2 c Chopped nuts
1/4 c Firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 ts Cinnamon
21 oz Blueberry Fruit Filling
Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 12” pizza pan or 13x9” pan. In large bowl, combine cake mix, 1 cup oats and 6 tablespoons margarine at low speed until crumbly.
Reserve 1 cup crumbs for topping.
To remaining crumbs blend in egg. Press in prepared pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes.
In same large bowl, add remaining 1/4 cup oats, 2 tablespoons margarine, nuts, sugar and cinnamon, to reserve crumbs; mix well.
Remove base from oven and spread pie filling evenly over top.
Sprinkle with reserved crumb mixture. Return to oven and bake 15-20 minutes or until crumbs are light golden brown.
Cool completely. Cut in wedges or squares. Makes 12 servings.
Banana Nut Cookies
2 2/3 c Flour
1/2 ts Baking soda
1/4 ts Salt
1 c Brown sugar
1/2 c Sugar
1 c Butter
1 Egg
1 ts Banana extract
1 md Banana; mashed
2 c Chocolate chips
1 c Walnuts; chopped
Preheat oven to 300° Blend sugars and butter. Add egg, banana and extract, mix in dry ingredients, stir in nuts and chips. Drop by spoonfuls on baking dish, bake for 25 minutes.
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Carrot Loaf
1 1/2 c ground raw carrots
1 c boiled rice
1 c ground peanuts
1 egg
salt, pepper
2 tbsp red or green peppers
3 tbsp minced bacon or other fat
1 tbsp onion juice
1/2 tsp mustard
Mix ingredients in order and bake the loaf in a moderate oven 1 hour. Serve tomato sauce if desired
Cottage Cheese
2 c whole milk
1/8 tsp salt
1 tsp butter
2 tbsp cream
Let milk stand in warm place (90 to 99 degrees), until it curdles. Drain through a cheese cloth placed over a colander. Press until whey ceases to separate. Add butter and cream, and shape into balls or cakes with a spatula. Or, use sour milk and heat it gently in a double boiler until the curds form , then proceed as above.
The Candy Calendar, Woman’s World Magazine Co. 1927
Ginger Taffy
2 c. Granulated Sugar
1/2 c. white syrup (corn syrup)
1 rounded tbsp butter
1/2 c boiling water
2 tbsp vinegar
level tsp ground ginger
Boil all except butter and ginger, without stirring, to soft-ball stage in large saucepan. Still without stirring, drop in butter and cook to hard ball stage. sprinkle in ginger and turn into buttered pans. When cool enough to handle, pull with buttered hands as long as can be pulled, and cut into 1 inch chunks. Wrap each, kiss fashion, in waxed paper.
Here’s a novel idea - candy made to look like muddy slush
January Thaw
2 c brown sugar
heaping teaspoon butter
1/2 c milk
1 c chopped black walnuts
dissolve sugar in milk, add butter and boil to firm ball stage. Remove from fire, add nuts and beat well. Turn into buttered pan and mark into diamonds when nearly cold.
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Fresh pasta is made with 1 lb. 2 oz. of flour and 5 whole eggs. In many regions of Italy only 4 eggs and a little water are used; in others, 2 eggs and more water. In other regions only the egg yolks and a little oil are employed. Regardless of these regional variations, the dough must be well kneaded - that is, until little bubbles are visible - before being stretched with the rolling pin.
1 lb. 2 oz. flour
5 whole eggs
Pour the flour on a pastry board, (spianatoia) in a cone-shaped, mound. Break the eggs into the center of the cone and blend the yolks with the whites, using a fork or fingers then begin gradually mixing the egg with the flour.
When the dough has thick texture, so that it is no longer possible to use a fork, the egg will no longer be liquid and about 1/2 of the flour will be incorporated. Continue to work with your hands, pushing the dough up from all sides, taking in as much flour as possible; keep on kneading for about 15 mins.
The dough must be thick and rather stiff, or it will be difficult to roll out, though it might seem to be the opposite.
Wrap the dough with a cloth and keep it under a weight for half an hour. This allows the dough (particularly the gluten in the dough) to relax; it will be less elastic and much easier to roll out after a short rest.
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Ketchup has had a long and strange journey to it’s current home at the Heinz factory, being colored day glo green and forced into squeeze bottles. It started out as fish sauce in Asia. British merchant sailors acquired a taste for the tomato-less sauce on their fish and chips and brought it to England, where it’s quite aromatic smell drew cats - thus fish sauce became “cat - sup”. At some point tomatoes were added, it got a whole lot thicker, and eventually it was sold in little plastic packets in McDonald’s restaurants everywhere.
Lots of different Catsups were developed by inventive cooks over the centuries - and a lot of them had no relation to fish sauce or tomatoes.
Apple Catsup
12 tart apples, pared, cored and quartered.
1 c sugar
1 tsp white pepper
1 tsp ground cloves
1 tsp dry mustard
2 white onions, minced
2 c pickling vinegar
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tbsp salt
1/2 c prepared horseradish
Place the apples in a large pot, covered with water. Cook slowly until the apples are soft and the water has almost completely evaporated. Put the apples through a sieve or vegetable mill. You should have about 1 quart of pulp. Add the remaining ingredients and heat until boiling. Reduce heat and simmer for an hour. Keep refrigerated. Excellent with roast pork, ham, goose or duck. 4
Out of the old west comes this recipe, from a stubby gunfighter named Bat Masterson, who was a close friend of Wyatt Earp during the heyday of Dodge City, KS. Later on, he moved to New York City and became, of all things, a sports writer. This recipe was one he invented that became popular all over cowboy towns of the western expansion.
William B. ‘Bat’ Masterson
Prairie Dog
Take a wiener and split it lengthwise. Rub the insides of the wiener with ground sage, and broil until done. On one side of a bun, spread mustard and cover with thinly sliced dill pickle. On the other, sprinkle with Worcestershire. “It makes the usual catsup and mustard wiener sandwich taste very poor in comparison” 2
Native American Meat and Fish Sauce
Combine a level teaspoon of ground horseradish and 2 oz catsup. Refrigerate for 4 hours before serving. Originally, the tomato based part was tomato pulp with “Indian” spices, but the author of the cookbook I got this from substituted ketchup. (Basically, it’s cocktail sauce) Horseradish is native only to the Americas, and Europeans widely believed the tomato (a plant from the nightshade family) to be poisonous. It makes sense that the Natives invented shrimp cocktail sauce long before whitey came over.
“It just cannot be beat. Brings out the flavor of meat, fish, or seafood perfectly.
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Old Fashioned Molasses Cookies
1 cup butter or full fat margarine
2/3 c sugar
1 c molasses
1/4 c sour milk
2 1/2 c sifted all purpose flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp salt
Cream butter thoroughly. Add sugar gradually and cream together until fluffy. Add molasses and milk. Mix well. Sift flour with soda, ginger, and salt 3 times. Add flour to butter mixture, mix thoroughly. Chill. Roll out dough on floured surface thin and cut out with cookie cutters or a floured glass. Bake on greased cookie sheets at 375 for 8 minutes, until done.
Round the World Cookbook, 1934
This one, as well as Cakes and Cookies With Personality, was put out by the makers of “Nucoa :The Double-Purpose Food” (also the makers of Hellmann’s Mayonnaise). It was one of those brands of white shortening (”oleo-margarine”, they gleefully referred to it as) that came with a packet of yellow food dye if you wanted to pass it off as a butter substitute. The wholesome thrift spread for bread and flavor shortening that now contains over 7500 units of vitamin A in every pound...
Butterscotch Pie
1 pre baked pie crust
1 cup dark brown sugar
3 tablespoons butter (or, if you prefer, ‘Nucoa oleo-margarine’)
1 1/2 cups milk
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs, separated
3 tbsp all purpose flour
2 tbsp powdered sugar
Heat a heavy fry pan over medium heat. Add the butter and brown sugar and stir until the sugar is melted and a thick brown syrup is formed. Add one cup of the milk into the pan, and the vanilla. Beat the egg yolks lightly in a medium sized bowl, and combine with the remaining milk and the flour until smooth. Add to the mixture in the fry pan and stir over medium heat until thickened and creamy. Pour into cooled pie crust. Beat remaining egg whites with powdered sugar until stiff and spoon decoratively over pie. Bake in preheated 325 degree oven until meringue is browned, Serve cold.
Substitutes for sour milk or buttermilk
from Successful Baking for Flavor and Texture by Martha Lee Anderson, 1936
Sweet milk can be artificially and quickly clabbered or soured by the acids present in citrus fruit juices, that is, lemon, orange, or grapefruit juice, or by vinegar. To change sweet milk to sour milk, equaling it as a leavening agent with baking soda, use the acid juices in the following quantities:
1 1/3 tbsp vinegar (4tsp)
1 1/2 tbsp lemon juice (4 1/2 tsp)
1/4 c grapefruit juice (4 tbsp)
3/4 c orange juice(12 tbsp)
For example: when vinegar is used to clabber sweet milk, place 1 1/3 tbsp vinegar in a measuring cup, add sufficient sweet milk until the combination of milk and vinegar equals the quantity of sour milk required. Mix well. In any case, the resulting sour milk will react with 1/2 tsp baking soda. It can be used in place of sour milk or buttermilk in any baking soda recipe.
Philippine Goulash
2 cans red kidney beans
1/2 lb sliced bacon
1 quart can tomatoes
1 tsp Rumford Baking Powder
1/4 lb cheese
salt and pepper
Cook the bacon crisply, then lift it from the pan. Add the kidney beans to the bacon fat. Then tomatoes to which Rumford Baking Powder has been added. Stir all together. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Cover closely, set in moderate oven and cook slowly for 1 hour. Then remove the cover and sprinkle with grated cheese. Arrange the bacon strips all over and cook for 10 minutes longer. Serve in a casserole.
Raisin Pie
2 c seeded raisins
1 1/2 c boiling water
1/2 tsp salt
3 tbsp cornstarch
1/2 c sugar
grated rind and juice of 1 lemon
Cook the raisins and water in the upper part of a double boiler for 5 minutes. Mix the salt, cornstarch, and sugar and pour the mixture over them, stirring constantly. Return to the double boiler and cook 5 minutes longer. Add the lemon rind and juice, cool, then bake between two crusts.
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There’s nothing you can’t make in an electric skillet. Check out the disclaimer at the end: “This is not a very sweet cookie...”
Fry Pan Cookies
Skillet temperature: 350
1 egg
1/4 c milk
1 c dates, chopped fine
3 1/2 c all purpose flour
1 c sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 c shortening
2 tsp nutmeg
In measuring cup combine eggs, milk and dates. Set aside. Into large bowl, sift together flour, sugar, nutmeg, baking soda and baking soda. Add shortening and blend as for pie crust. Pour liquid over other ingredients and combine thoroughly. Shape into 2 rolls that are 1 1/2 inches in diameter. Wrap in wax paper. Chill, and slice into 1/4 inch slices as needed.
Preheat electric skillet to 350.
Place 12 cookies into fry pan. Cover. Bake for 5-6 minutes on first side. Wait until golden brown, then turn with spatula. Bake 3-4 minutes on second side. Cool on a cake rack, and frost with milk frosting as desired. This is not a very sweet cookie.
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ENJOY THE FALL HARVEST WITH DELICIOUS SQUASH RECIPES
Autumn is harvest time. You can certainly enjoy these tasty squash recipes any time of year, but they seem particularly good as the weather cools down and we go back to using our ovens again. Time to cook delicious comfort foods.
Either of these recipes can be made with a variety of squashes. I have just listed the squash I prefer to use. They are so easy. They just bake alongside a roast beef or chicken or anything else you may have the oven turned on for. And they are a great part of any healthy diet.
CITRUS BAKED SQUASH
1 butternut squash (or any squash you prefer)
a mixture of 1/2 orange juice and 1/2 water
Peel the squash and slice it crosswise, so some of the slices are thick circles, about 1-1 1/2” thick. Arrange the slices in a Pyrex type baking dish. The size depends on the amount you are cooking. Just make sure they are in a single layer in the dish, not on top of each other.
Pour the orange juice and water mixture over the squash until it reaches about half way up the slices. Cover with foil and bake in a 350ºF for about 45 minutes, or until they are soft when a knife is inserted in the middle. Watch along the way to make sure the liquid does not dry out completely. If it does, just add a bit more.
Serve the slices drizzled with the extra orange sauce.
SWEET AND RICH PEPPER SQUASH
pepper squash (or any squash you prefer)
brown sugar
butter
cinnamon
Slice each pepper squash in half and clean out the cavity. Put a teaspoon of butter in each cavity. Add a dash of cinnamon and a teaspoon of brown sugar to each cavity.
Bake, covered in a 350ºF oven for 30 minutes, then uncover it for the last 15-30 minutes, so the sugar sauce thickens.
This squash can be served as is, in halves in the skin. If you prefer you can scoop out the squash and sauce, mix it together and put it in a pretty serving dish
I don’t salt either of these recipes because I find them tasty enough as is, but feel free to add a bit of salt if you would like.
I hope your family and friends enjoy these delicious recipes as much as mine.
Karen Ciancio is a cook and a fan of all things cooking related.
Her website www.cookingnook.com contains recipes for all occasions, cooking tips, cooking measurement conversions and lots of kitchen ideas. Come visit us as we grow.
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SAVORY STUFFED SWEET DUMPLINGS
5 A DayServes 4. Each serving is equal to three and a half 5 A Day servings.
Ingredients
2 sweet dumpling squashes (approx. 24 ounces)
1/2 cup long-grain brown rice
1 1/4 cup water
2 cups tomatoes, chopped
1 cup onion, chopped
1 cup green bell pepper, chopped
1/4 tsp freshly ground black pepper
1/2 tsp dried thyme leaves
1/2 tsp dried marjoram
1 1/2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1/2 cup raw pine nuts, toasted
salt to taste
Cut squashes in half lengthwise (from stem to blossom end). Scoop out seeds, and place the squash cut side down on a baking sheet covered with aluminum foil, shiny side down.
Bake at 400ºF for 40 minutes.
While squashes are baking, combine rice, water, and salt in a 2-quart saucepan.
Cover and bring to a boil over high heat.
Turn heat down to low and steam 35 to 45 minutes until tender.
Combine tomatoes, onion, bell pepper, black pepper, herbs, and olive oil in a large skillet.
Sauté over high heat until onions are softened and transparent, about 5 to 7 minutes.
When rice is cooked, add to ingredients in skillet along with pine nuts and mix well.
Season to taste.
Stuff squash cavities.
Spread the remainder of the stuffing onto the bottom of a lightly oiled 7” x 9” baking pan.
Lay squashes on top of stuffing.
Cover baking dish with aluminum foil, shiny side down.
Bake at 350ºF for 25 to 30 minutes.
Nutritional analysis per serving: Calories 325, Fat 9g, Calories From Fat 25%, Carbohydrates 54g Protein 8g, Cholesterol 0mg, Fiber 5g, Sodium 17mg.
CDC.gov - 5 a Day
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CHILI-CHEESE POTATO CAKES
Add shredded Cheddar cheese, canned diced chilies, beaten egg and chopped green onion to prepared mashed potatoes.
Form into patties, coat with cornmeal and brown both sides in skillet until hot and lightly crisp.
This recipe is courtesy of www.potatohelp.com
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LATKES, SWEET POTATO LATKES
Divine Kosher Cuisine: Catering to Family and Friends
by Rise’ Routenberg, Barbara Wasser
These pancakes are exotically flavored with ginger and allspice. To ensure even cooking, don’t crowd the latkes in the skillet.
Pareve Or Dairy
Yield 12 To 16 Latkes
Ingredients
• 4 1/2 cups peeled and shredded sweet potatoes or yams
• 2 large eggs, slightly beaten
• 1/2 cup flour (use 1/3 cup matzoh meal for Passover)
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar, firmly packed
• 1 teaspoon salt to taste
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper to taste
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
• 1/8 teaspoon ground ginger or cloves
• Vegetable oil for frying
• Applesauce and/or nondairy sour cream for pareve (use sour cream for dairy)
Directions
1. Combine potatoes with eggs, flour or matzoh meal, sugar, salt, pepper and spices.
2. Drop mixture by heaping spoonfuls into hot oil in large skillet, turning once after first side is browned. Drain on brown paper or paper towels.
3. Serve with applesauce and sour cream or nondairy sour cream.
How to Freeze and Reheat Latkes
1. Stand latkes up in freezable container and cover with foil or plastic wrap.
2. To reheat, place latkes in single layer on cookie sheet and bake at 375°F
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CHEESE RICE SQUARES
Yield: Makes 25 squares.
• 1 1/2 cups cooked rice
• 1/2 cup (2 ounces) shredded Cheddar cheese
• 1/4 cup sliced green onions
• 1/4 cup finely chopped ripe olives
• 1/4 cup dry bread crumbs
• 1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 1/8 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
• Paprika for garnish (optional)
Combine rice, cheese, onions, olives, bread crumbs, seasoning, eggs, lemon juice and pepper sauce in large mixing bowl.
Press mixture into buttered 8x8-inch baking dish.
Sprinkle with paprika, if desired.
Bake at 375 degrees 10 to 15 minutes.
Cut into 25 squares. Serve warm.
Nutrition Facts
Calories 31
Total Fat 1g
Cholesterol 20mg
Sodium 39mg
Total Carbohydrate 3g
Protein 1g
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VEGETABLE RICE BALLS
Yield: Makes approximately 3 dozen rice balls.
• 2 cups cooked rice
• 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
• 1 9-ounce envelope vegetable soup mix
• 1/4 cup dry bread crumbs
• 1 tablespoon grated Romano cheese
• 1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 3 eggs, slightly beaten
Combine rice, mozzarella cheese, soup mix, bread crumbs, Romano cheese, pepper and eggs in large mixing bowl.
Shape into 1-inch balls; place on well-greased baking sheet.
Bake at 375 degrees 10 to 15 minutes.
Serve warm.
Nutrition Facts
Calories 30
Total Fat 1g
Cholesterol 20mg
Sodium 128mg
Total Carbohydrate 3g
Protein 2g
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CHEESE RICE BALLS 1
Yield: Makes about 6 dozen.
• 4 cups hot cooked rice, cooled to room temperature
• 1 1/2 cups (6 ounces) shredded Cheddar cheese
• 2 tablespoons prepared horseradish
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon dry mustard
• 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
• 1/2 cup finely crushed crisp rice cereal
• Vegetable oil for frying
Combine rice, cheese, horseradish, salt, mustard, pepper, egg, Worcestershire sauce and oil in large bowl; chill.
Form mixture into small balls about 3/4 inch in diameter; roll in crushed cereal.
Fry in hot oil (365 degrees) until golden brown, about 3 minutes.
Drain on paper towels.
Serve immediately.
Nutrition Facts
Calories 43
Total Fat 3g
Cholesterol 9mg
Sodium 73mg
Total Carbohydrate 3g
Protein 1g
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